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Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-008-9103-8Authors
Madelyn M. Peterson, University of Queensland Philosophy Department E306 Level 3 Forgan Smith Building St. Lucia QLD 4072 Australia
Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry)
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Lisa Bridle, University of Queensland, Mater Hospitals Queensland Centre for Intellectual and Developmental Disability South Brisbane Q 4101 QLD Australia
Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry)
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Bioethics and disability rights: conflicting values and perspectives
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Abstract Continuing tensions exist between mainstream bioethics and advocates of the disability rights movement. This paper explores
some of the grounds for those tensions as exemplified in From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice by Allen Buchanan and coauthors, a book by four prominent bioethicists that is critical of the disability rights movement.
One set of factors involves the nature of disability and impairment. A second set involves presumptions regarding social values,
including the importance of intelligence in relation to other human characteristics, competition as the basis of social organizati...
Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry - May 14, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Tags: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry Source Type: journals
‘you say you’re happy, but…’: contested quality of life judgments in bioethics and disability studies
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Abstract In this paper, I look at several examples that demonstrate what I see as a troubling tendency in much of mainstream bioethics
to discount the views of disabled people. Following feminist political theorists who argue in favour of a stance of humility
and sensitive inclusion for people who have been marginalized, I recommend that bioethicists adopt a presumption in favour
of believing rather than discounting the claims of disabled people. By taking their claims at face value and engaging with
disabled people in open dialogue over impairment and disadvantage, bioethicists may take to heart an importan...
Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry - May 14, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Tags: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry Source Type: journals
Dis-orienting paraphilias? disability, desire, and the question of (bio)ethics
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Abstract In 1977 John Money published the first modern case histories of what he called ‘apotemnophilia’, literally meaning ‘amputation
love’ [Money et al., The Journal of Sex Research, 13(2):115–12523, 1977], thus from its inception as a clinically authorized phenomenon, the desire for the amputation of a healthy limb or limbs
was constituted as a sexual perversion conceptually related to other so-called paraphilias. This paper engages with sex-based
accounts of amputation-related desires and practices, not in order to substantiate the paraphilic model, but rather, because
the conception of these ...
Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry - May 14, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Tags: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry Source Type: journals
The european society for philosophy of medicine and health care
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The European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care
Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11019-008-9136-0
Journal Medicine, Health Care and PhilosophyOnline ISSN 1572-8633Print ISSN 1386-7423 (Source: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy)
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Advance directives in spain. perspectives from a medical bioethicist approach
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Bioethics, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page ???, OnlineEarly Articles.
ABSTRACT Spain is one of the most advanced European countries in terms of the legislative and administrative development of ADs. Article 11 of Law 41/2002, concerning Patient Autonomy, regulates ‘advance directives’ and has prompted various Autonomous ... (Source: Bioethics)
Source: Bioethics - May 13, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Tags: article Source Type: journals
Health technology assessment (hta): ethical aspects
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Abstract HTA is a multidisciplinary process that summarizes information about medical, social, economic and ethical issues related
to the use of a health technology in a systematic, transparent, unbiased, robust manner. Its aim is to inform the formulation
of safe, effective, health policies that are patient focused, and seek to achieve best value. Even though the assessment of
ethical aspects of health technology is listed as one of its objectives, in practice, the integration of this dimensions into
HTA remains limited. The article is focused on five points: 1. the concept of HTA; 2. the difficult relation...
Source: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy - May 10, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Tags: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy Source Type: journals
The agency problem and medical acting: an example of applying economic theory to medical ethics
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Abstract In this article, the authors attempt to build a bridge between economic theory and medical ethics to offer a new perspective
to tackle ethical challenges in the physician–patient encounter. They apply elements of new institutional economics to the
ethically relevant dimensions of the physician–patient relationship in a descriptive heuristic sense. The principal–agent
theory can be used to analytically grasp existing action problems in the physician–patient relationship and as a basis for
shaping recommendations at the institutional level. Furthermore, the patients’ increased self-determina...
Source: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy - May 10, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Tags: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy Source Type: journals
The fallacy of the principle of procreative beneficence
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Bioethics, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page ???, OnlineEarly Articles.
ABSTRACT The claim that we have a moral obligation, where a choice can be made, to bring to birth the ‘best’ child possible, has been highly controversial for a number of decades. More recently Savulescu has labelled this claim the Principle of ... (Source: Bioethics)
Source: Bioethics - May 9, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Tags: article Source Type: journals
Causality in complex interventions
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Abstract In this paper I look at causality in the context of intervention research, and discuss some problems faced in the evaluation
of causal hypotheses via interventions. I draw attention to a simple problem for evaluations that employ randomized controlled
trials. The common alternative to randomized trials, the observational study, is shown to face problems of a similar nature.
I then argue that these problems become especially acute in cases where the intervention is complex (i.e. that involves intervening
in a complex system). Finally, I consider and reject a possible resolution of the problem involvi...
Source: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy - May 9, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Tags: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy Source Type: journals
Deaf by design: disability and impartiality
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Bioethics, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page ???, OnlineEarly Articles.
ABSTRACT In ‘Benefit, Disability and the Non-Identity Problem’, Hallvard Lillehammer uses the case of a couple who chose to have deaf children to argue against the view that impartial perspectives can provide an exhaustive account of the rightness and ... (Source: Bioethics)
Source: Bioethics - May 8, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Tags: article Source Type: journals
Deciding on death: conventions and contestations in the context of disability
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Abstract Conflicts between bioethicists and disability theorists often arise over the permissibility of euthanasia and physician assisted
suicide. Where mainstream bioethicists propose universalist guidelines that will direct action across a range of effectively
disembodied situations, and take for granted that moral agency requires autonomy, feminist bioethicists demand a contextualisation
of the circumstances under which moral decision making is conducted, and stress a more relational view of autonomy that does
not require strict standards of independent agency. Nonetheless, neither traditional nor feminis...
Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry - April 30, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Tags: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry Source Type: journals
Mind the gaps: intersex and (re-productive) spaces in disability studies and bioethics
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Abstract With a few notable exceptions disability studies has not taken account of intersexuality, and it is principally through the
lenses of feminist and queer-theory oriented ethical discussions but not through ‘straight’ bioethics that modes valuing intersex
difference have been proposed. Meanwhile, the medical presupposition that intersex characteristics are inherently disabling to social
viability remains the taken-for-granted truth from which clinical practice proceeds. In this paper I argue against bioethical
perspectives that justify extensive and invasive pre- and post-natal medical interferenc...
Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry - April 30, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Tags: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry Source Type: journals
The individualist model of autonomy and the challenge of disability
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Discussions regarding self-determination, or autonomy, often focus on two dimensions—the capacity of the patient and the freedom
from external coercion. The practice of obtaining informed consent, for example, has become a standard procedure in therapeutic
and research medicine. On the surface, it appears that patients now have more opportunities to exercise their self-determination
than ever. Nonetheless, discussions of patient autonomy in the bioethics literature, which focus on individual patients making
particular decisions, neglect the social structure within which health-care decisions are made. Looking through...
Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry - April 30, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Tags: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry Source Type: journals
[postscript] should fertility doctors and clinical embryologists be involved in the recruitment, counselling and reimbursement of egg donors?
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Source: Journal of Medical Ethics - April 30, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Heng, B C Tags: PostScript Source Type: journals
[teaching and learning ethics] interprofessional ethics rounds concerning dialysis patients: staff's ethical reflections before and after rounds
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Conclusion:
The findings show the need for interprofessional reflective ethical practice but a balance between ethical reflection and problem solving is suggested if known patients are discussed. Further research is needed to explore the most effective leadership for reflective ethical practice. (Source: Journal of Medical Ethics)
Source: Journal of Medical Ethics - April 30, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Svantesson, M, Anderzen-Carlsson, A, Thorsen, H, Kallenberg, K, Ahlstrom, G Tags: Teaching and learning ethics Source Type: journals
[teaching and learning ethics] learning a way through ethical problems: swedish nurses' and doctors' experiences from one model of ethics rounds
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Conclusion:
When assisting healthcare professionals to learn a way through ethical problems in patient care, a balance should be found between ethical analyses, conflict resolution and problem solving. A model based on the findings is presented. (Source: Journal of Medical Ethics)
Source: Journal of Medical Ethics - April 30, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Svantesson, M, Lofmark, R, Thorsen, H, Kallenberg, K, Ahlstrom, G Tags: Teaching and learning ethics Source Type: journals
[teaching and learning ethics] the religious beliefs of students and the teaching of medical ethics: a comment on brassington
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It has recently been suggested by Brassington that, when students in classes in medical ethics announce that some view that they wish to express is related to their religious convictions, the teacher is obliged to question them explicitly about the suggested link. Here, a different conclusion is reached. The view is upheld that, although the stratagem recommended by Brassington is permissible and might sometimes be desirable, it is not obligatory nor is it, in general, likely to be optimal. (Source: Journal of Medical Ethics)
Source: Journal of Medical Ethics - April 30, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: McLachlan, H V Tags: Teaching and learning ethics Source Type: journals
[research ethics] status of healthcare studies submitted to uk research ethics committees for approval in 2004-5
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Conclusions:
This survey suggests that most research studies submitted to RECs in Manchester, UK are approved and initiated. (Source: Journal of Medical Ethics)
Source: Journal of Medical Ethics - April 30, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Arshad, A, Arkwright, P D Tags: Research ethics Source Type: journals
[research ethics] payment for research participation: a coercive offer?
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Payment for research participation has raised ethical concerns, especially with respect to its potential for coercion. We argue that characterising payment for research participation as coercive is misguided, because offers of benefit cannot constitute coercion. In this article we analyse the concept of coercion, refute mistaken conceptions of coercion and explain why the offer of payment for research participation is never coercive but in some cases may produce undue inducement. (Source: Journal of Medical Ethics)
Source: Journal of Medical Ethics - April 30, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Wertheimer, A, Miller, F G Tags: Research ethics Source Type: journals
[law, ethics and medicine] the views of cancer patients on patient rights in the context of information and autonomy
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Conclusions:
There are extensive efforts in Turkey towards making patient rights a significant supportive component of health services. For patient rights to become a natural part of medical practice it is necessary to give priority to education of both patients and physicians about patient rights and to lay emphasis on an ethical approach in the patient–physician relationship. (Source: Journal of Medical Ethics)
Source: Journal of Medical Ethics - April 30, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Erer, S, Atici, E, Erdemir, A D Tags: Law, ethics and medicine Source Type: journals
[global medical ethics] human rights and bioethics
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In the first part of this article we survey the concept of human rights from a philosophical perspective and especially in relation to the "right to healthcare". It is argued that regardless of meta-ethical debates on the nature of rights, the ethos and language of moral deliberation associated with human rights is indispensable to any ethics that places the victim and the sufferer in its centre.
In the second part we discuss the rise of the "right to privacy", particularly in the USA, as an attempt to make the element of personal free will dominate over the element of basic human interest within the structure of rights an...
Source: Journal of Medical Ethics - April 30, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Barilan, Y M, Brusa, M Tags: Global medical ethics Source Type: journals
[global medical ethics] the medical student global health experience: professionalism and ethical implications
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Medical student and resident participation in global health experiences (GHEs) has significantly increased over the last decade. In response to growing student interest and the proven impact of such experiences on the education and career decisions of resident physicians, many medical schools have begun to establish programmes dedicated to global health education. For the innumerable benefits of GHEs, it is important to note that medical students have the potential to do more harm than good in these settings when they exceed their actual capabilities as physicians-in-training. While medical training programmes are beginnin...
Source: Journal of Medical Ethics - April 30, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Shah, S, Wu, T Tags: Global medical ethics Source Type: journals
[genetics] minors and informed consent in carrier testing: a survey of european clinical geneticists
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Conclusion:
Age is not the only decisive element when considering the participation of adolescents in decisions affecting their health. The clinical geneticists referred to cognitive, emotional and sexual maturity and the support of parents as crucial elements in their comments regarding when to tell children about their genetic risk or to allow adolescents to request a carrier test. (Source: Journal of Medical Ethics)
Source: Journal of Medical Ethics - April 30, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Borry, P, Stultiens, L, Goffin, T, Nys, H, Dierickx, K Tags: Genetics Source Type: journals
[ethics] the perceived role of islam in immigrant muslim medical practice within the usa: an exploratory qualitative study
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Conclusions:
Immigrant Muslim physicians practising within the USA perceive Islam to play a variable role within their clinical practice, from influencing interpersonal relations and character development to affecting specialty choice and procedures performed. Areas of ethical challenges identified include catering to populations with lifestyles at odds with Islamic teachings, end-of-life care and maintaining a faith identity within the culture of medicine. Further study of the interplay between Islam and Muslim medical practice and the manner and degree to which Islamic values and law inform ethical decision-making is nee...
Source: Journal of Medical Ethics - April 30, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Padela, A I, Shanawani, H, Greenlaw, J, Hamid, H, Aktas, M, Chin, N Tags: Ethics Source Type: journals
[ethics] genomics and equal opportunity ethics
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Genomics provides information on genetic susceptibility to diseases and new possibilities for interventions which can fundamentally alter the design of fair health policies. The aim of this paper is to explore implications of genomics from the perspective of equal opportunity ethics. The ideal of equal opportunity requires that individuals are held responsible for some, but not all, factors that affect their health. Informational problems, however, often make it difficult to implement the ideal of equal opportunity in the context of healthcare. In this paper, examples are considered of how new genetic information may affec...
Source: Journal of Medical Ethics - April 30, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Cappelen, A W, Norheim, O F, Tungodden, B Tags: Ethics Source Type: journals
[clinical ethics] the quality of bioethics debate: implications for clinical ethics committees
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Bioethicists have recently expressed concern over a lack of quality control within the field. This apprehension focuses on bioethics expanding in ways that obscure its distinctive ethical remit and the specialist reasoning skills it requires. This thesis about the quality and conduct of bioethics may have particular relevance for clinical ethics. As one of the youngest offshoots of bioethics, the field focuses on the ethical issues that arise specifically in a clinical context. However, non-ethics specialists are increasingly involved in this field. This means that clinical ethics could be especially vulnerable to the qual...
Source: Journal of Medical Ethics - April 30, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Williamson, L Tags: Clinical ethics Source Type: journals
[clinical ethics] to what extent should older patients be included in decisions regarding their resuscitation status?
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This article explores some of the arguments regarding who should make the decision to implement such an order, with particular reference to older people and the unique issues they face in relation to resuscitation. The author concludes by arguing that official guidelines, while representing an ideal, are not easily applied in a typical acute setting where decisions regarding resuscitation are most commonly made, and makes suggestions as to how they may be implemented more successfully. (Source: Journal of Medical Ethics)
Source: Journal of Medical Ethics - April 30, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Wilson, J Tags: Clinical ethics Source Type: journals
[clinical ethics] patients' preferences for receiving clinical information and participating in decision-making in iran
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This study, the first of its kind in Iran, was to assess Iranian patients’ preferences for receiving information and participating in decision-making and to evaluate their satisfaction with how medical information is given to them and with their participation in decision-making at present.
Method and materials:
299 of 312 eligible patients admitted to general internal medicine or surgery wards from May to December 2006 were interviewed according to a structured questionnaire. The questionnaire contained questions about patients’ preferences regarding four domains of information and their participation in decis...
Source: Journal of Medical Ethics - April 30, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Asghari, F, Mirzazadeh, A, Fotouhi, A Tags: Clinical ethics Source Type: journals
[clinical ethics] an assessment of the process of informed consent at the university hospital of the west indies
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Conclusions:
This study clearly indicates that surgical patients at the University Hospital of the West Indies feel that they have given informed consent. However, it also suggests that more information should be given to patients for consent to be truly informed. (Source: Journal of Medical Ethics)
Source: Journal of Medical Ethics - April 30, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Barnett, A T, Crandon, I, Lindo, J F, Gordon-Strachan, G, Robinson, D, Ranglin, D Tags: Clinical ethics Source Type: journals
[clinical ethics] the ashley treatment: a step too far, or not far enough?
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This "current controversies" contribution describes the recent case of a severely disabled six year old girl who has been subjected to a range of medical interventions at the request of her parents and with the permission of a hospital clinical ethics committee. The interventions prescribed have become known as "the Ashley treatment" and involve the performance of invasive medical procedures (eg, hysterectomy) and oestrogen treatment. A central aim of the treatment is to restrict the growth of the child and thus make it easier for her parents to care for her at home. The paper below discusses the main objections to the tre...
Source: Journal of Medical Ethics - April 30, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Edwards, S D Tags: Clinical ethics Source Type: journals
[clinical ethics] the practicalities of terminally ill patients signing their own dnr orders--a study in taiwan
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Conclusion:
The family-oriented culture in Asian countries may violate the principles of the Patient Self-Determination Act and the requirements of the Hospice Care Law in Taiwan, which inevitably poses an ethical dilemma. Earlier truth-telling and continuing education of the public by hospice care workers will be helpful in solving such ethical dilemmas. (Source: Journal of Medical Ethics)
Source: Journal of Medical Ethics - April 30, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Huang, C-H, Hu, W-Y, Chiu, T-Y, Chen, C-Y Tags: Clinical ethics Source Type: journals
[clinical ethics] clinical prioritisations of healthcare for the aged--professional roles
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Conclusion:
Distributing healthcare services in a fair way is generally not described as integral to the clinicians’ role in clinical prioritisations. If considerations of justice are not included in clinicians’ role, it is likely that others will shape major parts of their roles and responsibilities in clinical prioritisations. Fair distribution of healthcare services for older patients is possible only if clinicians accept responsibility in these questions. (Source: Journal of Medical Ethics)
Source: Journal of Medical Ethics - April 30, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Nortvedt, P, Pedersen, R, Grothe, K H, Nordhaug, M, Kirkevold, M, Slettebo, A, Brinchmann, B S, Andersen, B Tags: Clinical ethics Source Type: journals
[clinical ethics] the potential impact of decision role and patient age on end-of-life treatment decision making
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Conclusions:
Patient age appears to influence medical decisions made for others but not those that we make for ourselves. These findings may help to explain the discord that often occurs when younger cancer patients refuse life-extending treatments. (Source: Journal of Medical Ethics)
Source: Journal of Medical Ethics - April 30, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Zikmund-Fisher, B J, Lacey, H P, Fagerlin, A Tags: Clinical ethics Source Type: journals
[clinical ethics] is truth a supreme value?
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Is truth a supreme value? At times, we doctors have to contend with a complex dilemma in which we face the value of truth on the one hand and conflict with another value on the other. Is it sometimes permissible and even necessary not to report the truth in favour of another, more important value? This is a description of an experience in which a doctor had to handle such an issue when a pregnant Muslim woman asked for a document that she wasn’t pregnant when in fact she was, in order to avert the possibility of being murdered to preserve the honour of the family. The doctor decided that the value of life was more im...
Source: Journal of Medical Ethics - April 30, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Peleg, R Tags: Clinical ethics Source Type: journals
[clinical ethics] mexican heroism
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Source: Journal of Medical Ethics - April 30, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Tomassi, M P Tags: Clinical ethics Source Type: journals
[clinical ethics] clinical ethicists' perspectives on organisational ethics in healthcare organisations
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Conclusion:
Growing demand for organisational ethics expertise in healthcare institutions is reshaping the role of clinical ethicists. Effectiveness in organisational ethics entails a re-evaluation of clinical ethics training to include capacity building in organisational ethics and organisational decision-making processes as a complement to traditional clinical ethics education. (Source: Journal of Medical Ethics)
Source: Journal of Medical Ethics - April 30, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Silva, D S, Gibson, J L, Sibbald, R, Connolly, E, Singer, P A Tags: Clinical ethics Source Type: journals
[editorial] should we force the obese to diet?
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Source: Journal of Medical Ethics - April 30, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Giordano, S. Tags: Editorial Source Type: journals
Informed consent practices in nigeria
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Developing World Bioethics, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page ???, OnlineEarly Articles.
ABSTRACT Most writing on informed consent in Africa highlights different cultural and social attributes that influence informed consent practices, especially in research settings. This review presents a composite picture of informed consent in Nigeria ... (Source: Developing World Bioethics)
Source: Developing World Bioethics - April 29, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Tags: article Source Type: journals
Clinical research without consent in adults in the emergency setting: a review of patient and public views
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Conclusions:
There are too few data to evaluate whether the rules and regulations permitting RWC protects - or is acceptable to - the public. However, any attempts to engage the public should take place in the context of findings from further basic research to attend to the apparently paradoxical findings of some of the current surveys. (Source: BMC Medical Ethics)
Source: BMC Medical Ethics - April 29, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Jan Lecouturier, Helen Rodgers, Gary A Ford, Tim Rapley, Lynne Stobbart, Stephen J Louw and Madeleine J Murtagh Source Type: journals
Reporting of informed consent, standard of care and post-trial obligations in global randomized intervention trials: a systematic survey of registered trials
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Developing World Bioethics, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page ???, OnlineEarly Articles.
ABSTRACT Objective: Ethical guidelines are designed to ensure benefits, protection and respect of participants in clinical research. Clinical trials must now be registered on open-access databases and provide details on ethical considerations. This ... (Source: Developing World Bioethics)
Source: Developing World Bioethics - April 28, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Tags: article Source Type: journals
The impact of research in bioethics
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Bioethics, Volume 22, Issue 5, Page ii, June 2008. (Source: Bioethics)
Source: Bioethics - April 28, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Tags: article Source Type: journals
The international dimensions of neuroethics
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In this study, we analyzed a set of 461 peer-reviewed articles with neuroethics content, ... (Source: Developing World Bioethics)
Source: Developing World Bioethics - April 25, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Tags: article Source Type: journals
Free riders and pious sons – why science research remains obligatory
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Bioethics, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page ???, OnlineEarly Articles.
ABSTRACT John Harris has previously proposed that there is a moral duty to participate in scientific research. This concept has recently been challenged by Iain Brassington, who asserts that the principles cited by Harris in support of the duty to ... (Source: Bioethics)
Source: Bioethics - April 25, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Tags: article Source Type: journals
Why we are not morally required to select the best children: a response to savulescu
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Bioethics, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page ???, OnlineEarly Articles.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to review critically Julian Savulescu's principle of ‘Procreative Beneficence,’ which holds that prospective parents are morally obligated to select, of the possible children they could have, those with the greatest ... (Source: Bioethics)
Source: Bioethics - April 25, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Tags: article Source Type: journals
Enhancements, easy shortcuts, and the richness of human activities
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Bioethics, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page ???, OnlineEarly Articles.
ABSTRACT One argument that is frequently invoked against the technological enhancement of human functioning is that it is morally suspect, or even wrong, to take an easy shortcut. Some things that usually take effort, endurance or struggle can come ... (Source: Bioethics)
Source: Bioethics - April 25, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Tags: article Source Type: journals
Procreative reasons-relevance: on the moral significance of why we have children
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Bioethics, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page ???, OnlineEarly Articles.
ABSTRACT Advances in reproductive technologies – in particular in genetic screening and selection – have occasioned renewed interest in the moral justifiability of the reasons that motivate the decision to have a child. The capacity to select for desired ... (Source: Bioethics)
Source: Bioethics - April 25, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Tags: article Source Type: journals
